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Message-ID: <20181108002626.GA17854@telecom.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2018 19:26:26 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
Subject: Southern Okla. AT&T service restored Tuesday night before
polls close
ARDMORE, Okla. (KXII) - UPDATE: AT&T technicians completed repairs
around 6:45 p.m. and restored service after a work crew damaged a
fiber cable earlier Tuesday in the Wynnewood area. AT&T officials said
they apologize to their customers for any inconvenience this may have
caused.
ORIGINAL: AT&T is experiencing outages across southern Oklahoma, and
it may affect how quickly voters will see election results.
https://www.kxii.com/content/news/Southern-Okla-ATT-outage-could-slow-election-night-results-499872791.html
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Bill Horne
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Message-ID: <20181108002047.GA17834@telecom.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2018 19:20:47 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
Subject: FCC Pretends To Hold Carrier Feet To The Fire On Robocalls
from the annoy-me-during-dinner dept
Despite numerous government initiatives and countless promises from
the telecom sector, our national robocall hell continues. Robocalls
from telemarketers and scammers continue to be the subject the FCC
receives the most complaints about, and recent data from the Robocall
Index indicates that the problem is only getting worse. Consumers are
routinely hammered by mortgage interest rate scams, credit card scams,
student loan scams, business loan scams, and IRS scams. In September,
group data showed that roughly 4.4 billion robocalls were placed to
consumers at a rate of 147 million per day.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181106/08194240988/fcc-pretends-to-hold-carrier-feet-to-fire-robocalls.shtml
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Bill Horne
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Message-ID: <25c8281d-5207-4a35-8fc5-60f9e93b5fc5@googlegroups.com>
Date: 6 Nov 2018 12:10:32 -0800
From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Re: INVESTIGATION: Phone company accused of neglecting
rural customers
On Monday, November 5, 2018 at 6:01:39 PM UTC-5, Bill Horne wrote:
> By Jackie DeFusco
>
> SCOTT COUNTY, Va. (WJHL) - June 5, 2018 was Ferne Grimm's 92nd
> birthday.
>
> The widow, known for her faith and spunk, was living alone in Upper
> Possum Creek, a neighborhood enclosed by mountains in rural Scott
> County,Va.
>
> Carol Alley, Grimm's daughter, didn't call before visiting her mother
> that morning. She knew her landline had been out for six days and no
> one in the neighborhood has cell service.
>
>
https://www.wjhl.com/local/watch-6p-phone-company-accused-of-neglecting-rural-customers/1566928636
Society wanted deregulation. That means companies will operate like
any business and serve only profitable customers, and not serve
unprofitable ones. So, this is what we got.
The local newspaper has reported (and I posted here) similar incidents
in outlying Verizon territory. They don't care about rural
subscribers.
The same is happening with electric power deregulation. Sure, we have
a trifling amount taken off of our electric bills. But the electric
companies have cut back mainline and local grid maintenance, so power
failures are more frequent and recovery takes longer. Further, the
national grid is used to sell power for profit, which was not what it
was built to do, adding a further load and outage risk to it.
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